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Rally Catalunya 2022 counts for:
2022 FIA World Rally Championship for Drivers/Co-drivers
2022 FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers
2022 FIA World Rally Championship 2 (for Teams and Drivers/Co-drivers)
2022 FIA World Rally Championship 3 (for Drivers/Co-drivers)
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| 627th WRC rally |
| Round of season: | 12 of 13 |
| Official name: | RallyRACC Catalunya-Costa Daurada - Rally de Espana |
| Edition: | 57th |
| Date: | from Friday 21-Oct-2022 to Sunday 23-Oct-2022 |
| Rally HQ: | Salou, Catalunya; Spain |
| Clerk of the Course: | Jordi Barrabes |
| Surface: | Tarmac |
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| Entries: | 67 | |
| Starters: | 64 | |
| Finishers: | 57 | (89.1% of starters) |
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| Stages: | 19 | |
| Shortest: | 2.15 | km | (SS15 Salou) |
| Longest: | 24.18 | km | (SS14 El Montmell 2) |
| Slowest: | 52.62 | km/h | (SS15 Salou) |
| Fastest: | 128.82 | km/h | (SS5 Els Omells - Malda 2) |
| Planned stage distance: | 293.77 | km | (22.5% of total distance) |
| Actual stage distance: | 269.59 | km | (20.6% of total distance) |
| Road section distance: | 1,037.14 | km |
| Total distance: | 1,306.73 | km |
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| DRIVERS - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 55th win and 94th podium for Sebastien Ogier. |
| Second place was 54th podium for Thierry Neuville. |
| Third place was 13th podium for Kalle Rovanpera. |
| MAKES - PODIUM FINISHERS |
| | Win was 76th win and win and third place were 221st to 222nd podiums for Toyota. |
| | Second place was 98th podium for Hyundai. |
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Ogier grabbed lead with superb time on SS3 but lost it on next when he was careful with cuts. After he regained lead on SS5, Ogier didn't let it go of it anymore. Even though his lead wasn't particularly large at any point, rally was so fast and differences so small that even small lead seemed sufficient. And so it was that Ogier won his first rally in his partial 2022 campaign.
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Even though Neuville led after SS4, he was then left trailing both Ogier and Rovanpera, fighting with the latter throughout the second day. Neuville gained second from the Finn on final stage of the day, Salou Super Special and after that Rovanpera no longer offered a challenge. Neuville therefore finished second overall.
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M-Sport fielded four cars all of which suffered various problems, except Fourmaux (pictured) who subsequently was best placed of team's entries. Greensmith fared worst, he wont off and blocked SS11. Breen suffered a puncture and had chronic understeer while Loubet knocked tyre off rim on SS3.
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Related links
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New Zealand 2022
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Rally Japan 2022
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